Committee Charge

The Mentoring Committee's responsibility is to develop mentoring programs, but currently supervises both conference mentoring and career mentoring programs. The Conference Mentoring Program matches mentors with new members at the ALA Annual Conference. The Career Mentoring program is an October - July program that making mentoring available to those who can't attend conferences. Finally, the committee is charged with exploring ways to use technology and up-to-date communication methods to expand mentoring initiatives and preparing guides dealing with mentoring.

History of the Committee

Major Responsibilities

Publicize the career and conference mentoring programs.

Coordinate the conference mentoring program at the annual conference.

Coordinate the career mentoring program from October through July, including providing monthly discussion topic emails.

Explore new ways to employ technology in mentoring initiatives.

Prepare guidelines for mentoring programs.

Improve the web presence of the committee by adding content such as mentoring guidelines, how to conference information, etc.

Procedures Used to Accomplish Major Responsibilities

Create web submission forms and other means for interested participants to sign up.

Work with other NMRT committees to publicize the program.

Add content to web site.

Research other mentoring programs to plan the all-year round mentoring program.

Use email communication to stay in touch with committee members and mentoring program participants.

Committee Composition and Term(s) of Office

Co-Chairs: 2

Members: 5

Appointment for Chair/Co-Chair : 1 year (annual to annual)

Appointment for member : 1 year (annual to annual)

Reports to

Member Services Director

Contact People for Accomplishing Committee Objectives

NMRT President

NMRT Vice-President/President-Elect

NMRT Outreach Director

NMRT Member Services Director

NMRT Student and Student Chapter Outreach Committee

Publicity Needs

Official press releases

Posting to other discussion lists

Working with liaisons

Records Generation and Archiving Schedule

List of mentoring program participants. To be kept for 5 years.

Forms Used by the Committee

Mentoring program application forms. Both the Career Mentoring Application Form and Conference Mentoring Application Form are available on the NMRT portion of the ALA web site.

Documents to Create/Update (e.g. Flyers, Brochures, etc.)

Mentoring Guidelines

List of mentoring program participants (on-going)

Mentoring program announcement/call for participants

Reminders and Helpful Hints

(need to create)

General Timetable

July

Co-chairs to introduce themselves to committee and set objectives and priorities for the year.